Across the Spider-Verse confirms Brooklyn Nine-Nine star’s Spider-Man character

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has revealed its newest star – and comedy fans will not be disappointed.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s Andy Samberg has been announced as a new web-slinger in the sequel to the 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Samberg is to voice the role of Scarlet Spider, aka Ben Reilly. Scarlet Spider is a clone of Peter Parker/Spider-Man that premiered in Marvel Comics in 1975 and was featured more heavily in later years.

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Fans of the first film know that Miles Morales, aka Spider-Man (voiced by Shameik Moore), took over the mantle of the friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man in his timeline when Peter Parker died.

However, he soon discovered that he was not the only Spider-Man or Spider-Woman out there and that there was a whole multiverse of Spider-People.

Little is known yet of how integral to the sequel Samberg is; however, the film lands in cinemas on June 2, and fans can expect more news to come.

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Samberg will join previously announced returners Moore, Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacy, Oscar Isaac as Miguel O’Hara, aka Spider-Man 2099, Luna Lauren Vélez as Miles’s mother Rio, Brian Tyree Henry as Miles’s father Jefferson Davis, and Jake Johnson as Miles’s mentor Peter B Parker.

Other cast members include Issa Rae as Jessica Drew, aka Spider-Woman, Karan Soni as Spider-Man India, Daniel Kaluuya as Spider-Punk and Amandla Stenberg as Spider-Byte.

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